Top 25 Albums of the Decade

This post is going to be far too short and much too whimsical. This is a heavytopic, god damnit — the top 25 albums of the decade! That’s ten years, people! Ten fucking years. I crawled from 12 to 22. Others did the same. Music came pouring out of our hands, feet, and kisses. We’re still suckers for a well-timed scream, still adverse to female vocalists, and still lapping up every unknown album that comes up on Mediafire. Bear with us, we’ve got a lot more listening to do. And so do you. So here it is, Fred’s top 25 Albums of the Decade.

331 songs, 1.53 GB of data, 27 album covers = 20 hours 34 minutes and 15 seconds of that tingling, nervous stomach drop effect you get the moment before the chorus drops and the music takes you somewhere you never thought you’d go. Close your eyes, tap your snare drum three times, and repeat after me: there are no albums like these.

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[…] Ambitious yet controlled, Sound Kapital is synth-pop written by a musician more comfortable with a guitar. Which is not to say that these songs are any worse for it; the perpetual momentum is a direct result of Boeckner’s willingness to let these fuzzy synth lines build to rollicking, throat searing choruses, a maneuver he’s deftly executed with guitars since Wolf Parade’s first album Apologies To The Queen Mary. […]

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